Half Story, Half Brief Summary

Before long, the three of them fell asleep together. March 7th hugged Stelle, who slept sprawled out like a starfish. Bai Tang was curled up in a ball as usual, still mumbling before she fell asleep:

"I feel like... I forgot something..."

Dan Heng, the only one still awake, covered them with a blanket and left the room to sleep in the archives.

The next day, Bai Tang woke up first and received a message from Pom-Pom saying that today was the day of the Express's big cleanup.

Bai Tang: I knew I'd forgotten something. Today is the day of the Express's big cleanup!

The day of the big cleanup could also be called the day Argenti suddenly appeared and crashed into the Express, a day with bugs everywhere that had been engraved into her very programming.

After receiving the message, Bai Tang naturally went to the parlor car to wait for the story to begin. The Knight of Beauty would soon arrive with his rose petals~

Soon, Stelle and the others arrived too, and the Express set off for Car-Wash Star.

"Huh? Something's a little strange, pom. Pom-Pom just selected the route we're taking..."

Pom-Pom noticed that the Express had somehow veered slightly off course and was about to investigate when Bai Tang sensed the aura of "Propagation" nearby.

Bai Tang's expression changed. "Bugs."

She had thought she could quietly watch the story play out, but now she realized she couldn't. The sight of bugs had triggered her immediately, and her very first thought was that she wanted to put her comrades out of their misery.

These bugs weren't her comrades, so why was she reacting like that? Sigh, a lingering trauma response from the past.

"What bugs... uh, huh?"

March 7th quickly remembered the bugs Bai Tang was talking about, and a horrified look crossed her face. The sight had left a deep impression on her. Once you'd seen an ordinary person turn into a giant bug while still alive, it was hard to forget.

"Boom—"

Familiar shadows blotted out the sky, and the Express shuddered, seemingly colliding with something. Bai Tang immediately used her power to keep everyone from falling.

"It's okay. I can still keep us steady."

Bai Tang took a deep breath. She didn't immediately leave the Express to slaughter the bugs. At a time like this, it was best to stay aboard and protect it.

Besides, Argenti was here. As a cosmic wanderer, he went just about everywhere. Without formidable strength, he would have died somewhere in the sea of stars long ago.

Who could forget the sense of salvation when Argenti suddenly appeared during Aventurine's conversation with Dahlia and Black Swan in the Penacony storyline? He had barged in alone and could leave whenever he wanted, too.

He was so powerful. As expected of the Weld-Wu Emperor (just kidding).

Bai Tang looked toward the spot where the Express had been struck. Sure enough, a figure appeared.

Here he comes, here he comes! He's walking in with a spotlight and rose petals!

The moment he arrived, he started showering the greenery with praise. The next second, the spotlight fell on March 7th, and he spun around and began praising her instead.

"Let me handle the Express."

Ever since they learned that her Path energy came from "Wish," she hadn't bothered to hide it... Well, she hadn't hidden it before, either. She had always found it easy to use in a fight.

"O deity whose beginning lies in dreams, please grant Wish to all beings. I wish for the Astral Express to travel through the sea of stars, unharmed and safely through every danger, until the power of the Path runs out."

As Bai Tang recited the words, Path energy enveloped the entire Express, coexisting with the "Trailblaze" above it. The hole smashed into the Express didn't even need repairs. It returned to normal at a speed visible to the naked eye and looked perfectly fine.

Everyone was stunned. Was this the power of "Wish"? No wonder the Dreamchasers were the hardest to deal with. Just seeing one standing there, you wouldn't know how to fight them.

"This is a prayer Dreamchasers use when drawing heavily on the power of 'Wish.' It prevents them from using so much that they can't maintain even their basic abilities and protect themselves properly."

If they recited it before using their power, then even if they squeezed out every last drop of energy and were too weak to move, the basic abilities that came with "Wish" would still function until their strength returned, helping the Dreamchasers stay alive in the meantime.

March 7th was eager to try. "Wow, can I do it if I say it too?"

That's such an amazing ability!

Bai Tang poured cold water on her enthusiasm. "No. You need to possess 'Wish' to activate it in the first place."

Some people said they were confused by the story, so I'll summarize Bai Tang's background. Next time, after I've written out all the foreshadowing, there'll be a confession from Bai Tang.

I'll summarize what has already been revealed in the story.

Bai Tang was born into a family that favored sons over daughters, and her life was miserable. She had never played any of miHoYo's games. In those circumstances, she couldn't have played them anyway.

Later, she transmigrated (there's a reason for it, which will be revealed later) and became Baiheng's biological younger sister. Her name went from "money-losing goods" to Jade, so she only acknowledges the name Bai Tang.

Because her life before transmigrating had been so miserable, she was immediately drawn to Baiheng and the others. She knew perfectly well who treated her kindly, so naturally she grew very fond of them and instantly cast those three from before her transmigration aside.

Later, something difficult to talk about happened, and in any case, the world was destroyed and restarted. For certain reasons, Bai Tang was the only one to appear in the new world with her memories intact, though it was another cycle.

Except for the first time, when she was born, her body simply grew smaller each time after that. You could say that her body's parents had always been Baiheng's parents.

The first time, she was born. The second time, she fell from the sky, all the Path energy in her body gone. She landed on the Yaoqing, where she was imprisoned by the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus and became a fellow patient of Moze's. She was there for only a month before Feixiao rescued her.

Because she knew no one and nothing about the place, she mostly tried to earn people's trust on the Yaoqing while secretly looking up information on the Luofu. Only after learning that the High-Cloud Quintet had become a thing of the past and that they didn't know her did she give up on going to the Luofu.

Later, the world was destroyed and restarted, and Bai Tang fell into a desert. Those who know, know. Kakavasha was picked up at a slave market on that desert planet.

It happened repeatedly after that, so I won't go through each one. In any case, the world restarted several times.

Finally, she succeeded in returning to her original world, hiding the ears on her head and her tail. But faced with her family that favored sons over daughters, and thinking of the relatives and friends who had treated her so well, she had no qualms about deciding that the world of Honkai: Star Rail was her home, not this place.

So she spent five years researching how to return. During that time, she saw the Honkai: Star Rail game and even played it, finding a bunch of familiar faces in it.

She planned for five years, went to a convention in her original appearance while claiming to be a Baiheng cosplayer, found a spatial node, and deliberately used her death to cover up her return to the world of Honkai: Star Rail.

That was the beginning of this story.

This world is the world Bai Tang lived in, which restarted n times. The only difference between this world and the world of Honkai: Star Rail is the addition of the "Wish" Path, a Path that has existed since the world's final restart—that is, when Bai Tang went home.

The other worlds can be considered extensions of an "if" scenario. To put it plainly, there was no Trailblazer, which was why she got so excited when she saw Stelle.

She learned all her abilities in Honkai: Star Rail, so they didn't come out of nowhere. After all, how old was she when she transmigrated?

That's all for the summary for now.

As for why she transmigrated, why there's an extra Path, why the world restarts, and so on, those should all be more or less revealed by the time we get through the Amphoreus storyline.